Table cont

Symbol	Name	Description
ER	Engelmann Spruce Riparian	Typically a dense coniferous forest, with shrub- and forb-minated understories, Engelmann spruce and sometimes black cottonwood; found on floodplains or small riparian areas.
ES	Estuary	Typically an unforested tidal wetland dominated by persistent emergent herbaceous species, with open or sporadic access to ocean areas and where the sea water is periodically diluted with fresh water derived from land drainage.
EW	Subalpine Fir - Mountain Hemlock Wet Forested	Typically a dense coniferous forest, with shrub-dominated understories, which includes plant communities that progress directly to a mixed climax of subalpine fir and mountain hemlock and sometimes, amabilis fir.
FB	Subalpine Fir - Scrub Birch Forested	Typically a northern, subalpine, open forested habitat, characterized by stands of subalpine fir and white spruce with a dense shrub understorey of willows and scrub birch.
FE	Sedge Fen	A fen wetland class that typically is an unforested wetland, dominated by sedges, found on poorly drained organic sites.
FP	Engelmann Spruce - Subalpine Fir Dry Parkland	Typically a high elevation mosaic of stunted-tree clumps and herb- or dwarf shrub-dominated openings, occurring above the closed forest and below the alpine.
FR	Amabilis Fir - Western Redcedar	Typically low elevation dense coniferous forest, with fern- or shrub-dominated understories, which include plant communities that may contain western redcedar as a long-lived seral species, leading to a mixed western hemlock and amabilis fir climax.
FS	Fast Perennial Stream	Typically a freshwater riverine habitat contained within a channel that has continuously-moving, fast-flowing water, which is bounded by banks or upland habitat and has a high gradient.
GL	Glacier	Typically a field or body of snow or ice found in higher elevations in mountainous terrain, where snowfall exceeds melting. These areas of snow and ice will show evidence of past or present glacier movement.
GB	Gravel Bar	Typically a level, unvegetated or partially vegetated fluvial area along an active watercourse.
GO	Garry Oak	Typically a sparse to open mixed forest, with understories dominated by mosses and a dense mixture of spring wildflowers and grasses, growing on shallow, rocky sites.
HB	Western Hemlock - Paper Birch	Typically a dense mixed forest composed of paper birch, Douglas-fir, western redcedar and western hemlock with shrub-dominated understories.
HL	Coastal Wesern Hemlock - Lodgepole Pine	Typically an open to dense coniferous forest on dry sites, with shrub-dominated understories, which includes plant communities that progress through lodgepole pine seral stages to a western hemlock climax.
HP	Mountain Hemlock Parkland	Typically a high elevation, sparse to open mosaic of stunted tree clumps and herbaceous or mountain-heather dominated openings, which proceeds after disturbance directly to a climax species mix, dominated by mountain hemlock.
HS	Western Hemlock - Sitka Spruce	Typically a dense coniferous forest along outer coastal sites, with shrub-dominated understories, which usually succeeds directly to a mixed climax of western hemlock and Sitka spruce.
IG	Interior Western Redcedar	Typically a dense coniferous or mixed forest, with extensive shrub- and herb-dominated understories, which includes plant communities that progress through seral Douglas-fir, trembling aspen and paper birch to a climax of western redcedar and grand fir.
IH	Interior Western Hemlock - Douglas-fir	Typically a dense coniferous forest, with various shrub- and herb-dominated understories, which includes plant communities that proceed through Douglas-fir, western larch, western white pine, and/or paper birch seral stages to a mixed climax of western hemlock and western redcedar.
IM	Intertidal Marine	Typically a habitat that consists of ocean overlying the continental shelf and its associated high energy shoreline, with salinities in excess of 18 ppt, and a substrate that is exposed and flooded by tides (includes associated splash zone).
IN	Intermittent Stream	Typically a freshwater riverine habitat contained within a channel that only periodically has moving water and is bounded by banks or upland habitat.
IS	Interior Western Hemlock - White Spruce	Typically a dense coniferous forest with shrub- and moss- dominated understories, which includes plant communities that may progress through long-lived seral subalpine fir, spruce and lodgepole pine to a climax of western hemlock and western redcedar.
LL	Large Lake	Typically a fresh deepwater habitat that includes permanently flooded lakes, usually found in a topographic depression, lacking emergent vegetation except along shorelines, and usually with a size of greater than 60 ha.
LP	Lodgepole Pine	Typically an open lodgepole pine forest with shrub, moss or terrestrial lichen understories on level, nutrient-poor, coarse-textured soils.